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Post by rsynnott »

ars wrote: post #224
wongarsu wrote: post #156

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Yes. In the US eggs are washed with soap and hot water after being laid. Most of the rest of the world doesn't do that. We simply arrange things so eggs don't lie in poop, then deliver them to the customer unwashed. Both methods work, but the washing process removes a protective layer from the eggs, causing them to require refrigeration and generally last not as long

US eggs last exactly the same amount of time, and they do not actually require refrigeration, it's basically a custom at this point that customers expect.

Once the egg has been refrigerated (which it will be in shipping and in the supermarket) breaking the cold chain is, at best, risky; you'll potentially get condensation which can lead to contamination.

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Post by ge96 »

toast0 wrote: post #325
ge96 wrote: post #271

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I think the most brutal thing is when the male chicks are immediately sent into a shredder damn. Out of sight out of mind That's where I can be a proponent of lab-grown meat without consciousness

Sure, it's brutal; but roosters don't get along. You would have to have a huge amount of space to raise all the males. For mammals, you can castrate the males and raise them for meat, but that's not feasable for birds.

A messed up thought is I wonder if they have looked at trying to get chickens to produce only female chicks not sure how some hormone or the eggs are injected without compromising integrity

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Post by rsynnott »

Xunjin wrote: post #15
llamaimperative wrote: post #4

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This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.

I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.

Thing is, that would be difficult, whereas randomly breaking government agencies is quite easy. If you happen to be Donald Trump, and you're looking for ways to please your supporters, culture war nonsense is the easy approach, provided you don't care at all about the consequences.

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Post by bluedino »

epistasis wrote: post #187
bavarianbob wrote: post #170

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It's another requirement to comply with. More work for the producer == higher cost for the consumer.

But the claim is that the shortage has been made worse by cage free laws. Any higher cost from cage free laws would already have been part of the price.

I'm saying the prices are what's been made worse. But suppliers haven't converted over so that doesn't help the shortage.

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Post by TylerE »

whateveracct wrote: post #320
mplanchard wrote: post #18

Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper. This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

If I avoid name brand stuff, my prices generally aren't bad. Like you said, the local eggs have been stable. Locally sourced chicken also is reasonably priced and often on sale. There was BOGO (mix and match) last week so I got a whole chicken and a 2lb pack of breasts for $12 total. Both beautiful quality. With a bunch of minor cheap produce, herbs, and pasta..that's chicken soup + a chicken one pot meal that'll las…

That is likely to change. Why should they sell a superior product for less?

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Post by rsynnott »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #139
butlike wrote: post #56

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Please stop the precedent of saying both their names in the same breath

They seem to be joined at the hip now, what with Elon being granted carte blanche. If it helps, I prefer "fat man and little boy".

Poor ol' JD Vance is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb)

(The _third_ WW2-era bomb design, an impractically long plutonium gun-type. Much like Vance, it was rather pointless and impractical, and was never really heard from again.)

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Post by duxup »

9283409232 wrote: post #303
duxup wrote: post #301

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I honestly think that one was ignorance more than direct malice. I think he is in fact as ignorant / incurious as he seems.

Both are bad. Trump was wrong because he was speaking on outdated information but he wouldn't accept that he was wrong so his administration created some data so he could say he was right.

Certainly bad. Arguably stupid is even more dangerous.

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Post by bluGill »

Zanfa wrote: post #274
oceanplexian wrote: post #229

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Actually the inconvenient truth is that it's not. Free range birds are able to interact and spread the disease more easily than the caged birds which can be quarantined. At least in my location all the cage free inventory is totally wiped out.

The only thing caged birds do is interact with other birds. There’s a reason antibiotics are so widely used. It’s like a massive Petri dish.

Antibiotics are not widely used. There are many regulations, to use them at all you need a vet to sign off. You also have to pay for them. Then the animal has to be off of them for weeks before you can sell it.

In any case where are talking about a virus which an antibiotic won't touch at all.

Modern large farms have very strict bio controls. Things like: You shower before entering the barn (there is a shower in the barn entrance). Then you wear only approved clothing. Your shoes are disinfected as part of this process. then when you leave you reverse the process. If you enter one barn you are not allowed in a different barn for a week.

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Post by TylerE »

aj_icracked wrote: post #294
afavour wrote: post #84

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This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.

Totally agree with this. After selling my last company (iCracked W12) I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network - think millions of people leveraging their backyards to produce, share, and sell protein and vegetables. I've always wanted to build a company that blends smart home / AI technology with backyard agriculture and we decided to start wit…

Seems interesting a bit but surely the economics are rather brutal? Even a traditional coop has an ROI of years and years and years.

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Post by simple10 »

vips7L wrote: post #137
simple10 wrote: post #5

I live in CA and saw a massive jump in prices when the state ordered chickens to be euthanized due to bird flu. It was also the first time I saw grocery store shelves completely empty of eggs for days at a time. Prices for organic eggs have somewhat returned to pre-bird flu levels but the regular sales and discounts have stopped. Non-organic eggs are still significantly higher.

I'm in socal and have been buying vital farms eggs. The price has been near constant.

Same in norcal. Vital Farms has been constant except Safeway owned grocery stores used to have them on regular sales. Now they're always full price.
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